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Virtual reality

Here are entered works on entirely digital environments that are experienced by end users. Works on environments that layer digital content on top of physical environments are entered under Augmented reality. Works on combined physical and digital content that enables interaction with real-world and digital objects are entered under Mixed reality.

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• Computer simulation
• Reality

• Virtual reality -- Evaluation
• Virtual reality -- Fiction
• Virtual reality -- Health aspects
• Virtual reality -- Military aspects
• Virtual reality -- Periodicals
• Virtual reality -- Philosophy
• Virtual reality -- Social aspects
• Virtual reality -- Technological innovations
• Avatars (Virtual reality)
• Shared virtual environments

• Environments, Virtual
• Virtual environments
• Virtual worlds

• Virtual Body Language: The History and Future of Avatars; How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Jeffrey Ventrella (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Virtual Reality: Scientific and Technological Challenges (1995), ed. by Nathaniel I. Durlach and Anne S. Mavor (page images with commentary at NAP)
• City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1996), by William Mitchell (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), ed. by Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael Nixon (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Immersive simulation training for the dismounted soldier (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2007), by Bruce W. Knerr and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• New developments in computer technology : virtual reality : hearing before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, May 8, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by Science United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forward and lateral distance, height, and speed perceptions with a wide-angle helmet display (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1995), by Robert H. Wright and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simulator sickness in virtual environments (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1995), by Eugenia M. Kolasinski and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)

• Heuristic evaluation of a user interface for a game-based simulation (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2007), by Christian J. Jerome, Deborah R. Billings, Amanda M. Howey, and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Heretic, by Jason K. Chapman (HTML at jasonkchapman.com)
• Sales Talk, by Con Blomberg, illust. by Gray Morrow (Gutenberg ebook)

• A comparison of effectiveness of some antimotion sickness drugs using recommended and larger than recommended doses as tested in the slow rotation room (Pensacola, Florida : U.S. Naval School of Aviation Medicine, U.S. Naval Aviation Medical Center, 1965., 1965), by Charles D. Wood, Robert S. Kennedy, Ashton Graybiel, Naval School of Aviation Medicine (U.S.), and United States Navy Department Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (page images at HathiTrust)

• Virtual environments for dismounted soldier simulation, training and mission rehearsal (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2004), by Charlotte H. Campbell, Donald R. Lampton, Bruce W. Knerr, and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect of a body model on performance in a virtual environment search task (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1998), by Michael J. Singer, Robert C. Allen, Jennifer A. Ehrlich, and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virtual environments for dismounted soldier training and performance : results, recommendations, and issues (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1998), by Bruce W. Knerr and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dismounted Warrior Network Enhanced Restricted Terrain (DWN ERT) : an independent assessment (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1999), by Bruce W. Knerr, David E. Eakin, and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Force XXI training program-digital project : report on development and lessons learned (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1999), by Christopher R. Graves and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructional strategies for training teams in virtual environments (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2001), by Donald R. Lampton and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect of viewing conditions on sickness and distance estimation in a virtual environment (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2000), by Jennifer A. Ehrlich and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Assessing decision-making skills in virtual environments (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2002), by Michael T. Gately, Sharon M. Watts, Robert J. Pleban, and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Infantry Forces Research Unit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virtual environments for dismounted soldier simulation, training, and mission rehearsal : results of the FY 2002 culminating event (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2003), by Bruce W. Knerr and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Simulator Systems Research Unit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Using virtual environments for conducting small unit dismounted mission rehearsals (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1995), by Robert J. Pleban, Jena Salvetti, and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Using virtual environments for terrain familiarization : validation (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1995), by David M. Johnson, Dennis C. Wightman, and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perspectives on the Virtual Training Program from members of its initial observer/controller team (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1996), by Theodore M. Shlechter and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simulation-based mounted brigade training program : history and lessons learned (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1996), by U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences and Milton E. Koger (page images at HathiTrust)
• An examination of the value of demonstration tapes for the Virtual Training Program (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1996), by Theodore M. Shlechter, James Anthony, and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Individual Combatant Simulation System (ICSS) assessment plan (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1996), by Bruce W. Knerr, U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Simulation Systems Research Unit, and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Beavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Task performance in virtual environments : stereoscopic versus monoscopic displays and head-coupling (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1995), by Michael J. Singer and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Small team portal into the 21st century : STP21 (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1996), by Margaret S. Salter and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virtual training program orientation guide (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1996), by Billy L. Burnside, William E. Myers, Martin A. Leppert, and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Armored Forces Research Unit (page images at HathiTrust)
• An examination of training issues associated with the virtual training program (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1997), by Theodore M. Shlechter and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sustaining and improving structured simulation-based training (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1998), by David W. Bessemer, William E. Myers, and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Armored Forces Research Unit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Functional capabilities of four virtual individual combatant (VIC) simulator technologies : an independent assessment (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1998), by Robert J. Pleban and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Infantry Forces Research Unit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Training dismounted soldier in virtual environments : enhancing configuration learning (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2000), by Bob G. Witmer, Bruce W. Knerr, and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)

• International Journal of Virtual Reality (1995-) (partial serial archives)
• Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine (2003-) (partial serial archives)
• e-Journal of New Media (in English and Turkish; 2017-) (partial serial archives)
• JMAI (Jurnal Multimedia dan Artificial Intelligence) (in Indonesian; 2017-) (partial serial archives)
• Frontiers in Virtual Reality (2020-) (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Metaverse (2021-) (partial serial archives)

• The Electronic Disturbance, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)

• My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009), by Bonnie A. Nardi (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Online virtual worlds : applications and avatars in a user-generated medium : hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, April 1, 2008. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Telepresence : hearing before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, April 30, 1997. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1998), by Science United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), ed. by Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael Nixon (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Virtual Body Language: The History and Future of Avatars; How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Jeffrey Ventrella (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Online virtual worlds : applications and avatars in a user-generated medium : hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, April 1, 2008. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space: Best Practices for Educators in Multi-User Virtual Environments (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2016), by Estelle Codier (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
• Immersive simulation training for the dismounted soldier (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2007), by Bruce W. Knerr and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)

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